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Aligning Values to Actions

Eric Poll

Objective: Promote the practice of Model the Way with this exercise that helps leadership teams define their guiding principles and, based on the progress they believe they are making, establish next steps.

Ask each team member to score (from 0 to 10) how well he/she feels the team is doing on each guiding principle

Ask each team member to score (from 0 to 10) how he/she thinks the organization would score the team on each guiding principle

In small groups, ask team members to describe why they think the overall score is the way it is and what the team can do to improve.

Bring the smaller groups back together to create a consolidated action plan

Follow-up in six months to review progress, discuss if the team has improved, and why or why not.

Variations: Participants write a letter to themselves (to be read six months later) outlining the actions they are going to take personally to improve the team score. The facilitator collects the letters at the workshop and returns them to the participants six months later.

Facilitator Tips: The principle behind this approach is that most companies have an established set of values. But it is not the existence of corporate values that matters. What makes a difference in how leadership is practiced in organizations is whether each member of the leadership team is willing to engage in defining what values mean to them, as individuals, and how they are going to apply those values in their day-to-day work.

Instead of values becoming a communication exercise with blogs, posters, and leaflets, this exercise reinforces the notion that values are about reflection and alignment with individual leaders.

Eric Poll is partner of OrgInt (OrganiSational Intelligence). Specializing in cultural change, leadership and team development, and HR transformation, Eric works in English, German, and Dutch. Visit www.orgint.com for more information.